A blockchain-based platform for decentralized "network states"

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Decentralization

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

• reports

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Tech or Digital Policy

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• cities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Research tools

We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Here we introduce StraightLines, a proof-of-concept tool developed by AOI’s Lucid Lens team, that automatically rewrites news headlines to reflect the content of articles in a more accurate, less sensational way.

• extensions

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

ONSHOR est une association créée en 2019. ONSHOR a pour objectif de stimuler la diffusion de l’information publique.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

"The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). As the first dedicated privacy regulator in the United States, the agency implements and enforces the CPRA and the California Consumer Privacy Act." - Wikipedia

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Thailand's Members of Parliament Monitoring Website

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Chaque citoyen a le droit d'accéder aux informations détenues par les autorités publiques. Légalement, ils doivent répondre.

An Alaveteli instance for Norway. Project is on pause but the platform still operates

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency

O LupaMundi - Mapa das Legislações sobre Desinformação é um mapa interativo que apresenta as leis nacionais de combate à desinformação.

• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps
• Civic tech legislation and policy

[W]hich aspires to establish a global democracy, solving the hard problem of representing every human in the world – including those who won’t participate – without the help of government.

• Participatory democracy
• Blockchain
• Democratic Innovations

Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• Open data publishing platforms

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

• guides

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media is a non-profit organization that advocates for Palestinian digital rights. 7amleh’s mission is to create a safe, fair and free digital space for Palestinians.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Il assiste les utilisateurs dans leur parcours de vote : pour vérifier leur inscription sur les listes électorales, leur rappeler les dates limites pour s’inscrire, les dates des élections 2022 et la procédure pour faire une procuration.

• WhatsApp

• Voting and elections
• Bots
• Voter assistance tech

Tools to improve public procurement processes for companies and public administration

• Govtech
• Procurement

À partir du jeudi 17 février 2022 et jusqu’au 8 avril, l'ensemble des membres de Tinder en France âgés de 18 à 25 ans verront donc apparaître plusieurs “Swipe Video Card'' détaillant les démarches à suivre pour les élections présidentielles de 2022. Chaque Swipe Card dirige les membres vers notre page “Infos élections”.

• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach
• Advertising

We are looking for a diverse group of residents in the city of Detroit to participate in the testing of civic apps/websites! Sign up for the Civic User Testing Group (CUTGroup) now and tell your friends!

• User research
• User research groups

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Service alerts
• Consumer watchdogging

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This e-group is created as a part of social movement building initiaves with the aim to share knowledge and discuss the latest development and issues related to the regional community integration of ASEAN. All are welcome.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

The Statewide News Collective is a community for news organizations serving statewide audiences launched by The Lenfest Institute, RevLab at The Texas Tribune, and Spotlight PA.

• state

• Media
• Peer networks
• Journalism

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• cities

• Media
• Peer networks
• Journalism

We pilot, build, and test solutions for compliance, mass adjudication, policy making, and government services

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Legal tech

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

• Cybersecurity
• Threat reporting

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

A privacy-respecting system for aggregate statistics

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

The CyberPeace Institute is a Geneva based organization protecting the most vulnerable in cyberspace. Independent and neutral, the Institute investigates and analyzes the human impact of systemic cyber threats, delivers free cybersecurity assistance, tracks the enforcement of international laws and norms and forecasts threats to Cyberpeace.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A program offered by K&L Gates for victims of nonconsensual photography based in the US and beyond

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• cities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open innovation

MANO BALSAS LT is a rational voting system on the internet. On this website, people are invited to take a short test and find out which politicians or parties align closest to their views.

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

"Voter Page" aims at providing electronic advanced services to voters.

• Voting and elections
• Open government data
• Voter assistance tech

Foros is a forest management and investment platform.

• forests
• Climate action

• Tech for public challenges
• Manage natural resources

An opportunity for every conscious member of society to contribute to the elimination of the shadow economy.

• taxes
• illicit goods
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

Revisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina

• taxes

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

MyCandidate is a platform that empowers voters with easy-to-understand electoral information that anyone can access ahead of an election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

The Democracy Forum is a not-for-profit NGO which promotes ideals of democracy, pluralism and tolerance through public debate.

• Participatory democracy
• Debate

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

Americans Elect was a political organization in the United States known primarily for its efforts to stage a national online primary for the 2012 US Presidential Election. Although it was successful in obtaining signatures to get on the ballot in a majority of states, the process set up by the organization did not select a candidate.

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

Mastodon bot posting US Presidential Actions and new policy updates from OMB, OSTP, OPM, EOs, etc.

• Govtech
• Bots
• News and blogs

A Digital Servant's Guide to U.S. Federal Information Technology Law and Policy

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Building inside government